Mid-level Full Stack Software Engineer

We are hiring a Mid-level Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team to help develop and maintain our web and mobile applications.

Our team is distributed so this is a remote role. Our engineering team is largely based in Cape Town so our preference is that you're within 3 hours of GMT+2.

Names & Faces is a Saas business. We build software that helps people better understand the organization they are part of. This starts with reimagining the employee directory and org chart to be the go-to reference to understand who’s who, where everyone fits in, and get context about the people in your organization.

Here's a 1min 36sec video where Paul, our CEO, explains what we do.

As part of the Engineering team you'll work across our technology stack and will be responsible for planning, proposing and building world class technical solutions for our web and mobile applications.

The main reason to consider this opportunity is because of the extraordinary team of people you’ll work alongside on this journey. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better bunch. Here are a few other perks worth noting (tap on the arrow to expand each section):

Human relationships power organizations. But knowing people is hard.

If you’ve ever been part of an organization with more people than you can easily remember where things are changing all the time — new people, new teams, new roles and new initiatives — you will have experienced the awkwardness, frustration and limiting behavior that comes with the territory.

What you’re feeling is a sense of predictable social and functional failure. It is caused by not knowing who is who on your team, not knowing who fits in where or who is responsible for what, not knowing who might be able to help when you need a hand and not having the ability to get in touch with the right person at the right time.

This is a problem experienced by everyone from the CEO to the new joiner in almost every organization on earth of more than 50 people.

There’s a simple way to overcome this problem. It involves creating an intuitive, accurate, contextually relevant visual list of your people that provides structure, organizational insight and immediate accessibility in the moments you need it — which is also hard. What we’re building at Names & Faces is the platform to create a list like this for every organization on earth.

Is it not astounding that there is no standard way to create a list of people that includes photos and basic details? There are a hundred hacks, but no generally accepted way. At Names & Faces we are creating the world’s definitive directory technology platform.

The white pages was the last purpose built directory any of us used. For the last 20 years directories have been relegated to being no more than bad byproducts of larger company systems: HR systems, IT systems, intranets, social networks and company communication tools. None of these systems were built to be directories. The directory was an afterthought.

Think of Names & Faces in a similar way to what Google has done for content on the web. Google doesn’t own the content or manage it. Regardless of format, Google simply indexes the websites of millions of different organizations and displays that information in a quickly digestible way that every person on earth uses. It’s faster to find something on a company’s website by asking Google to find it than it is to go to that company’s homepage to find it yourself. This is the case for every website on earth.

Names & Faces is positioned to do a similar thing. Every organization in the world has their people information somewhere: in an HR system, a security system, an excel spreadsheet — the location doesn’t matter. Names & Faces will not be the source of truth. Instead, Names & Faces will index that information regardless of its format or location and will present it in a more intuitive and accessible way than any other system. Like Google, Names & Faces, will become the dedicated directory platform through which people access information about the people in their organizations.

Names & Faces is not a social network, it is not an HR system, and it’s not a communication tool. It is directory technology — a new type of technology that doesn’t replace any existing tool. Instead it sits as a layer across all existing systems indexing and presenting people data to users through a fast, visual, intuitive interface.

Having immediate access to basic details about the people around us helps address anxieties that have existed since the dawn of man: who is who in this tribe? Who fits in where? Who should I be cautious of? And who might help me thrive?